Fraser Island, off Australia’s eastern Queensland coast, is the world's largest sand island, stretching over 120km, and visited only by 4-wheel drive vehicles. Panoramic viewpoints include Indian Head, a rocky outcrop on the island's easternmost tip, and the Cathedrals, a cliff famous for sculpted ribbons of coloured sand. It's a destination with popular beaches and swimming sites at Lake McKenzie, Lake Wabby, and other freshwater pools. Fraser Island is the only place in the world where tall rainforests are found growing on sand dunes at elevations of over 200 metres. The low wallum heaths on the island provide magnificent wildflower displays in Spring and Summer.

Fraser Island's World Heritage listing ranks it with Australia's Uluru and the Great Barrier Reef. Its long uninterrupted white beaches flanked by strikingly coloured sand cliffs, and over 100 fresh-water lakes all ringed by white sandy beaches, should not be missed. Ancient rainforests grow in sand along the banks of fast-flowing, crystal-clear creeks. Be it fishing off 75 Mile Beach on the eastern side of Fraser Island, at Sandy Cape, Indian Head or off the Kingfisher Bay Resort jetty, Fraser Island offers a diverse range of fish species that are available all year. Whiting, dart, tailor and jewfish are all common catches off the beaches and jetties.

Mid-size cruise ships enter Harvey Bay (adjacent to Bundaberg), and then the narrow Great Sandy Strait (adjacent to Maryborough), on the island’s protected west coast to tender passengers ashore. The Great Sandy Strait is listed by the Convention on Wetlands, of International Importance. The island spreads over 166,000 hectares. The wetlands include: rare patterned ferns; mangrove colonies; sea-grass beds; and up to 40,000 migratory shore birds. Rare, vulnerable or endangered species include dugongs, turtles, lllidge’s ant-blue butterflies and eastern curlews.